Metal Hammer (UK)'s Scores

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For 25 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 84% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 12% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 78
Highest review score:
Dead Set on Living
Critic Score 90
Lowest review score:
A Different Kind of Truth
Critic Score 60
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
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    • Metascore: 84
    • Critic Score 80
    Carved into Stone
    Songs as instantly gratifying as these don't come along every day. [May 2012, p.105]
    Posted Jul 26, 2012
    • Metascore: 83
    • Critic Score 90
    Harmonicraft
    Smoother production and the further improvement in the overall quality of the material--not to mention evidence of a genuine dedication to his vocal performance from Steve Brooks--put Harmonicraft in a different league. [May 2012, p.104]
    Posted Apr 24, 2012
    • Metascore: 81
    • Critic Score 80
    Torture
    Nastier, harder and more devastating than 2009's Evisceration Plague, Torture attacks with savage precision from the opening seconds of the aptly titled Demented Aggression and never lets up. [Apr 2012, p.101]
    Posted Apr 6, 2012
    • Metascore: 80
    • Critic Score 80
    Kitsune
    The truly standout moments come throughout in the form of Emma Ruth Tundle's brittle and breathy vocals.
    Posted Jul 3, 2012
    • Metascore: 78
    • Critic Score 80
    The Shadow Gallery
    The Shadow Gallery is little short of a triumph. [Apr 2012, p.107]
    Posted Apr 24, 2012
    • Metascore: 78
    • Critic Score 70
    The Fatal Feast
    Quality tracks like Standards And Practices and Residential Disaster could have been all the more excellent had the frontman shown as much adventure as his bandmates. [May 2012, p.103]
    Posted May 11, 2012
    • Metascore: 78
    • Critic Score 80
    Ex Lives
    Every Time I Die are on fire again. [Mar 2012, p.102]
    Posted Feb 29, 2012
    • Metascore: 78
    • Critic Score 90
    Koloss
    Koloss is truly phenomenal. [Apr 2012, p.100]
    Posted Mar 26, 2012
    • Metascore: 75
    • Critic Score 90
    MMXII
    With MMXII they've hit the ball clean out of the stadium. [May 2012, p.102]
    Posted May 9, 2012
    • Metascore: 75
    • Critic Score 90
    Dead Set on Living
    It's heavy, it's catchy, it's relentlessly brilliant and, above all else, it's still quite unlike anything else you're likely to hear this year. [May 2012, p.94]
    Posted Apr 10, 2012
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 80
    The Power Within
    With The Power Within, they've carried it off with their usual cocky assurance. [May 2012, p.96]
    Posted May 2, 2012
    • Metascore: 74
    • Critic Score 80
    Utilitarian
    After three decades of machine-gunning holy cows and hypocrites, Napalm Death remain on target. [Mar 2012, p.103]
    Posted Feb 28, 2012
    • Metascore: 73
    • Critic Score 60
    A Different Kind of Truth
    Even though it's good to see Van Halen up and around, A Different Kind Of Truth is not the resurrection that we all dared to dream of. [Apr 2012, p.102]
    Posted Mar 19, 2012
    • Metascore: 72
    • Critic Score 90
    A Eulogy for the Damned
    They simply don't put a foot wrong, from start to finish. [Mar 2012, p.104]
    Posted Mar 7, 2012
    • Metascore: 72
    • Critic Score 70
    Noctourniquet
    While Noctourniquet sits at the more accessible end of their sonic spectrum, it still walks a fine line between visionary and indulgent with no little skill. [Apr 2012, p.105]
    Posted Mar 22, 2012
    • Metascore: 69
    • Critic Score 60
    The General Strike
    Anti-Flag's eighth album is a reinvention of the Pennsylvanian punks' standard template. [Apr 2012, p.101]
    Posted Mar 19, 2012
    • Metascore: 68
    • Critic Score 80
    Relapse
    Relapse is Ministry's most varied (and interesting) album in years. [May 2012, p.98]
    Posted Apr 6, 2012
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 80
    The Great Fire
    The Great Fire should reestablish Bleeding Through as trailblazing scene leaders as they hit veteran status. [Mar 2012, p.98]
    Posted Feb 24, 2012
    • Metascore: 67
    • Critic Score 80
    A Brief Crack of Light
    A brief Crack of Light sees Northern Irish noise rock trio Therapy? delve further the rabbit hole to deliver a potentially game-changing opus. [Mar 2012, p.107]
    Posted Feb 24, 2012
    • Metascore: 61
    • Critic Score 80
    Blood for the Master
    Blood For The Master veers expertly from bleak, blasting extremity to crazy-eyed thrash to ruinous punk rock, often all within the same song but never to the detriment of the band's core malevolent oh-so-metallic aggression. [Apr 2012, p.105]
    Posted Mar 20, 2012
    • Metascore: 60
    • Critic Score 70
    This Means War
    Attack Attack! may still be a way behind the big boys, but given what's come before it, This Means War is a real triumph. [Mar 2012, p.99]
    Posted Feb 17, 2012
    • Metascore: 59
    • Critic Score 80
    Slave to the Game
    This is easiest their finest work to date. [May 2012, p.100]
    Posted Apr 12, 2012
    • Metascore: 56
    • Critic Score 80
    Enslaved
    Relevant and life-affirmingly angry. [Mar 2012, p.96]
    Posted May 24, 2012
    • Metascore: 54
    • Critic Score 80
    Ceromonies (Ad Mortem ad Vitam) [Live]
    This set celebrates a band whose arcane atmospherics continue to resonate with wonder. [Apr 2012, p.104]
    Posted Apr 26, 2012
    • Metascore: 47
    • Critic Score 70
    Amaryllis
    If it ain't broke, why fix it? And the results speak for themselves. [Apr 2012, p.108]
    Posted Mar 28, 2012